Appeal No. 2005-0970 Page 5
Application No. 09/918,760
electromagnetic clutch which controls a clutch mechanism such
that the card medium transport mechanism’s feed roller advances
intermittently (col. 2, lines 7-22 and 54-57; col. 8, lines 8-
23).
The appellants argue that Narita’s device for incrementally
advancing the card medium stops the card medium but does not stop
it short of a particular desired position (brief, pages 5-6;
reply brief, page 3). The appellants’ claim 9 requires that the
substrate is moved to a point short of an intended destination.
Narita’s intended destination is the end of the printing. Each
incremental movement of the card medium stops the card medium
short of that intended destination.
The appellants argue that Narita’s substrate advancer does
not emit signals to stop the substrate short of a final
destination (brief, page 7). Narita’s clutch control medium that
controls the clutch mechanism sends electric current (signals) to
the clutch mechanism to cause the intermittent movement of the
card medium feed roller (col. 2, lines 30-57), thereby stopping
the card medium at each intermittent position short of the final
destination.
The appellants argue that Narita does not disclose reducing
backlash (brief, page 5; reply brief, page 2). Backlash
reduction is recited in claim 9 only in the claim’s preamble. A
term appearing in a preamble is limiting when it is found to be
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